Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:09:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: hoek@FreeBSD.org (Tim Vanderhoek) Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en y2kbug.sgml Message-ID: <199907261609.JAA94475@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199907240120.SAA08912@freefall.freebsd.org> from Tim Vanderhoek at "Jul 23, 1999 06:20:31 pm"
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> hoek 1999/07/23 18:20:31 PDT > > Modified files: > en y2kbug.sgml > Log: > Add notes stating which release of FreeBSD each y2k bug was (will be) fixed > in. > > Wow. Do you realize this file will become irrelevant in 4 months? Summer > vacation is almost over. Two months ago I wrote my last exam. At the time, > four months seemed like a merciful eternity for a summer vacation. Now there > are only two months left. Four months is pretty short. I remember when the > pr misc/1380 was filed, I read the comment about how the bug reported in > that pr would surface in four years. My first thought at the time was > "Wow, that's pretty soon." Come to think of it, in retrospect, it wasn't > even that long ago that I was young enough to suffer the illusion (or "be so > innocent as to believe", YMMV) that the year two-thousand would never arrive. > > I'm allowed to waste verbiage in this commit log. The file is doomed in > four months, anyways. The file is not doomed to die, Y2K only has 1 digit of signifacance in physics terms, thus it really covers the range of dates from 1500 to 2500, and thus the Unix 2038 date should be considered part of it. This file will not be obsolete for 38 more years, or until we all of those issues too. Please folks don't become complacint and ignore it because we have 38 years to go, thats what we did in the '70s and look at the mess we left!!! -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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